“Wealth itself is blameless, but there can be fear for its precious eye; for I consider the presence of a house's master to be its saving light.”

A Difficulty in the Path of Psycho-Analysis (1917)
1910s

The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), I Philosophy

Falling (l. 66–68).
The Whole Motion; Collected Poems, 1945-1992 (1992)

The Washington Post. February 2, 2000. Interview conducted by Antoine K. Kehdy of Middle East Insight magazine.<br>Source: Interview http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/hzblhnsr.htm <br class="br">Quote, 2000

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

Nobel lecture (1970)
Context: We, holding Art in our hands, confidently consider ourselves to be its masters; boldly we direct it, we renew, reform and manifest it; we sell it for money, use it to please those in power; turn to it at one moment for amusement — right down to popular songs and night-clubs, and at another — grabbing the nearest weapon, cork or cudgel — for the passing needs of politics and for narrow-minded social ends. But art is not defiled by our efforts, neither does it thereby depart from its true nature, but on each occasion and in each application it gives to us a part of its secret inner light.

The Work of Jesus Christ as and Advocate

Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 174